Growing up Amish was all I knew until I was twenty-seven years old when my wife and our four children at the time made the switch from Amish to Mennonite. This meant we left behind everything we knew, from driving horse and buggy to now driving a car and the use of electric in our house. Growing up Amish, we did not always abide by the Amish rules. In my new book here, you will see how I met my wife and how we had our first and best date night ever. Soon after we married, we got to be good friends with our neighbors who were not Amish and we would spend time at their house watching tv and then other times we would go to town and walk the mall for the evening, just killing time. Next thing we knew we got into the party life and we were bar hoping. Life took us on a path we never seen coming and it led me to a dark place in life to where I was no longer pleasing God, and I knew that, but I kept on going. I grew up in my dad’s furniture business making lawn furniture. After we got married, I thought a would do the same for the rest of my life. Building lawn furniture was all I knew. I loved working with wood. But we spend all our money partying it away it seemed. We couldn’t even make our $350.00 monthly house payment no more. Finally, the only way we seen a path out of this was by moving completely away from this area, away from all our family and friends and start us a new life somewhere else. This was a move to Sarasota Florida where once again life thrived for a season. The darkness of my life still lingered with me and we made a move to Indiana to a facility at Fresh Start to help us find our way once again. Read more